While a survey last summer showed that 64% of Europeans are worried about the EU’s security, on Tuesday 1 April, the European Commission presented a new ‘Internal Security Strategy for the EU’ for the next five years.
Responding to new threats recently identified in a report submitted by Europol, the EU’s police cooperation agency (see EUROPE B13602A9), this strategy aims to tackle crime that has “changed significantly”, with new hybrid threats in particular, explained...